What Would Che Wear Today?

This says it all.

Shamelessly lifted from Jonah Goldberg, who found it here.

Not Only Obama Supporters Love Che

All this time I figured Che Guevara was popular only among whacked-out Obama campaign employees and leftist judges.

Well, it turns out there are plenty of fruitcakes in his native country of Argentina as well.

A bronze statue of Ernesto "Che" Guevara was unveiled on Saturday in the Argentine city where he was born exactly 80 years ago, the first such monument to the revolutionary in his homeland.

Thousands of students, leftist activists and residents marched through Rosario to pay homage to the long-haired guerrilla fighter, who left his country as a young man to lead armed struggles including Cuba's 1959 revolution alongside Fidel Castro.

"I believe in the revolution, that's why I love Che," said Monica Nielson, 49, wearing a soldier's beret with a single star like that worn by Guevara in a photo that turned him into a 20th Century icon.

"El Che," a national hero in Communist Cuba, is one of Argentina's most famous sons. But he has been slow to get recognition as a national figure at home.

For years after CIA-backed troops executed him in the Bolivian jungle in 1967, he was still too controversial for public recognition in Argentina.

The leaders of the country's 1976-83 "dirty war" dictatorship banned his image, and attackers bombed the middle-class Rosario apartment building where Guevara was born in 1928 after the local council put up a commemorative plaque there.

A handful of high schools bear Guevara's name, and a small museum opened in one of his former homes in 2001. But in a country with a penchant for naming streets and avenues after obscure Spanish viceroys, his absence is notable, said leftist historian Felipe Pigna.

"It's disgraceful that in a city like Buenos Aires ... there's not a single street named after Doctor Guevara," he said.

You see, he was just misunderstood. And besides, it was the mean rightwingers who didn't even want to discuss him.

"Che is more of a historical figure nowadays," said Horacio Ghirardi, organizer of the tribute in Rosario. "He was always very controversial in the country, especially among the right, which couldn't stand him or even tolerate debate about him."

Gosh, such intolerance, dismissing as unworthy a mass murderer.

Not everyone has slurped the Che Kool-Aid, thankfully.

For some, he is still a threatening figure.

"He was a terrorist. There are a lot of other people who deserve to have statues. It's not right to give killers monuments," said taxi driver Diego Benitez. "To cap it off they use public money. We all pay whether we like it or not."

Have Four Hours to Kill? Watch 'Che' The Movie

Best Che photo ever

On the other hand, save some brain cells and avoid this paean to Marxism. You think all those anti-war flicks have been colossal bombs? This could do even worse at the box office.

Really, outside of the hard left, dyed-in-the-wool moonbats, Democrat operatives and Obama supporters, who on earth would spend over four hours watching this stultifying dreck?

No doubt it will be back to the drawings board for “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s intricately ambitious, defiantly nondramatic four-hour, 18-minute presentation of scenes from the life of revolutionary icon Che Guevara. If the director has gone out of his way to avoid the usual Hollywood biopic conventions, he has also withheld any suggestion of why the charismatic doctor, fighter, diplomat, diarist and intellectual theorist became and remains such a legendary figure; if anything, Che seems diminished by the way he’s portrayed here. Originally announced as two separate films, “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla,” to be released separately, the film was shown as one picture, with intermission, under the title “Che” (although neither this nor any other credits appeared onscreen) in its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Neither half feels remotely like a satisfying stand-alone film, while the whole offers far too many aggravations for its paltry rewards. Scattered partisans are likely to step forward, but the pic in its current form is a commercial impossibility, except on television or DVD.

Perhaps a better film would endeavor to explain why this murderous, Communist piece of shit is so admired by the left.

Viva la Obamalucion!

Go here for the video.

Apparently these Obama campaign workers are so stupid they find nothing wrong with plastering the image of a mass murderer on the wall.

Over to you for comment, Barry O.

Via Hot Air.

UPDATE: Hmm. This could have some legs. Now at LGF, Captain's Quarters, Don Surber, NewsBusters.

Some worthwhile reading from the American Thinker.

And what have we here? Che-Obama t-shirts!

The Victims of Che Guevara

No doubt we'll be seeing this image on t-shirts nationwide.

Stacy McCain has the details on this wonderful idea from the Young America's Foundation.

One of the most famous faces of communism is getting a makeover this week, with a new poster designed to teach students the whole story about Cuban revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

"The Victims of Che Guevera" poster, produced by the Young America's Foundation, centers on a collage that uses tiny photos of those killed by Cuba's communist regime to compose the face of the Marxist guerrilla, who has become a popular T-shirt icon.

"Che is one of the heroes that the left idolizes," said Patrick X. Coyle, vice president of YAF. "But a lot of kids don't know anything about him. We thought this would be a great way to highlight his atrocities."

The occasion for the poster is Freedom Week, YAF's annual commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, which has since become the most famous event symbolizing the collapse of Soviet communism.

Conservative students on more than 100 college and university campuses will participate in Freedom Week events, and YAF has printed 10,000 copies of the Guevara poster to dramatize the fact that communism "affected real individuals," Mr. Coyle said.

"In fact, collectivist regimes, according to 'The Black Book of Communism,' murdered more than 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century," he said.

The Che poster was the brainchild of YAF President Ron Robinson and created by designer Jonathan Briggs.

"We worked with Umberto Fontova, author of 'Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him,' and he helped us acquire the images" of victims of Cuban communism, Mr. Coyle said.

Maybe the kids who are being brutalized by the thug Hugo Chavez can wear them while the water cannons are hosing them down.

A famous photo of Guevara by Alberto Korda was made into a poster that adorned the walls of many student radicals in the U.S. during the era in the late 1960s and early '70s.

Guevara was "an international terrorist and mass murderer," the YAF poster declares.

It's no accident, Mr. Coyle suggests, that Guevara T-shirts are worn by students on so many campuses today. "Colleges and universities are the last holdouts of Marxist ideas," he said.

More from Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air.

Cuba Remembers T-Shirt Icon

Here's my favorite photo of Che Guevara, having just assumed room temperature. Put that on a t-shirt, why don't you?

Fidel has another column to remember the sad day.

I'll assume they're in mourning at college campuses nationwide.

Communist Cuba paid tribute on Monday to its poster boy, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 40 years after the guerrilla fighter was captured and executed in Bolivia.

The man he helped to power in Cuba's 1959 revolution, Fidel Castro, was too ill to attend a memorial rally at the mausoleum where Guevara's remains were placed when they were dug up from an unmarked Bolivian grave in 1997.

Castro marked the anniversary in a newspaper column that was read out at the rally, saying the Argentine-born doctor sowed the seeds of social conscience in Latin America and the world.

"I make a halt in day-to-day combat to bow my head, with respect and gratitude, before the exceptional fighter who fell 40 years ago," Castro wrote.

Guevara was captured by CIA-backed Bolivian soldiers on Oct. 8, 1967, and was shot the next day in a schoolhouse. His bullet-riddled body, eyes wide open, was put on display in a hospital laundry room and later buried in an unmarked grave. He was 39.

About 10,000 Cuban workers and students gathered on Monday before a monument of the guerrilla fighter carrying a rifle in Santa Clara, the city in central Cuba that Guevara "liberated" in 1958 in the decisive battle of the Cuban revolution.

"Che was loved, in spite of being stern and demanding. We would give our life for him," said 80-year-old Tomas Alba, who fought under Guevara's command.

A billboard quoted Castro saying: "We want you to be like Che."

This drivel also gives Reuters another chance to take a swipe at U.S. policy.

The one-party state built by Castro with Guevara's help 90 miles (135 km) away from the United States has endured CIA-backed invasion plans and assassination plots, and the hostility of 10 U.S. administrations.

"In almost five decades of extensive covert efforts to roll back the Cuban revolution, the capture and death of Che stands as really the only CIA success story," said Peter Kornbluh, an expert on Latin America at the National Security Archives, a public interest documentation center in Washington.

Uh, Mr. Kornbluh, what happened to their benefactors in the former Soviet Union?

Leftwing Idol Was a Homophobic Killer

Maybe we'll have some Che t-shirt burnings to follow. Then again, the left really adores killers, so perhaps we'll see even more of those insipid shirts.

He’s the ultimate symbol of radical chic but was Che Guevara really a homophobic, racist square who personally ordered the jailing and executions of innocent men, women and children?

That’s according to Humberto Fontova, the author of “Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him,” who claims that Guevara probably would have imprisoned or punished most of his celebrity fans, from Johnny Depp to Angelina Jolie.

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